More than one direction to look
From Humpback Rock, the view opens toward the Shenandoah Valley in the west and Albemarle and Nelson Counties in the east. I photographed the summit as a spherical panorama, with help from Tom Daly, so the view could be explored rather than reduced to a single direction.
Build a photograph you can move through
The capture used a GigaPan EPIC 100 Panohead and a Canon 5D Mark II. The finished image was published on 360Cities in August 2011 at 9,552 by 4,776 pixels. Its spherical format lets the viewer turn around within the photograph and choose where to look.
Leave the looking to the viewer
A conventional photograph makes a firm choice about the frame. Here, the work includes the space around that choice: the landscape continues beyond the first view. Turn within the panorama and choose your own direction. With an installation like Reko Rennie’s Patternation at Kluge-Ruhé, I want to preserve more than the individual works. The room and the relationships within it matter, too.